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16 Jun 2010, 9:15 am by Todd Rodriguez
The Senate voted down a bill this week that would have temporarily avoided the impending 21% cuts in Medicare physician fees. [read post]
18 Jun 2012, 6:36 am by Todd Rodriguez
Even if you are not considering selling your medical practice now, there are good reasons to maintain it in a condition to be sold. [read post]
23 Oct 2012, 10:57 am by Todd Rodriguez
On October 9, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (PA DOH) announced that it has changed the Pennsylvania rules regarding the J-1 Physician Waiver Program. [read post]
23 Jul 2009, 11:46 am
In what many Pennsylvania physicians feel is a long overdue move, the Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner has announced that the Department of Insurance will investigate whether any of Pennsylvania's Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurers have engaged in anti-competitive behavior in violation of the Unfair Trade Practices act. [read post]
25 Feb 2010, 7:51 am by Todd Rodriguez
In what should be welcome news for physicians, yesterday the House of Representatives quietly passed a bill which would repeal a long-standing exemption for insurance companies from federal anti-trust laws. [read post]
30 Jul 2012, 9:51 am by Todd Rodriguez
As the debate regarding healthcare reform rages on, perhaps too often the blame for rising health care costs is pointed at physicians, and as a result, physician reimbursement has historically been an easy target for cost-cutting. [read post]
30 May 2017, 1:30 pm by M. Ramana Rameswaran
USA Today, New York Times, BNA, and several other news outlets have been reporting over the last few weeks about non-competition agreements and non-compete laws especially related to low-wage workers. [read post]
26 Feb 2018, 2:45 pm by Michael J. Bassett
Last month, Apple issued a long awaited announcement of their move into the medical records field, by debuting new functions in the updated Health app for the iOS 11.3 beta, allowing users to view and aggregate their medical records on their iPhones. [read post]
25 Mar 2009, 1:12 pm
A recent whistleblower case out of the federal 3rd Circuit in Pennsylvania highlights some of the dangers in not properly documenting financial relationships between physicians and hospitals. [read post]
7 Oct 2009, 8:45 am by Todd Rodriguez
According to an article in the News Tribune, the long arm of the federal government has tracked a Washington state doctor to Madagascar and brought him back to the U.S. to face fraud charges. [read post]
29 Jul 2014, 6:50 am
On December 18, 2013, Pennsylvania Act 122 amended the Pennsylvania Clinical Laboratory Act to, among other things, impose licensure requirements on out of state clinical laboratories and to place certain prohibitions on physician financial arrangements with labs. [read post]
4 May 2016, 5:44 am by Edward J. Cyran
In a recent Advisory Opinion (No. 16-02), the OIG concluded that it would not seek sanctions against a state-run hospital (the “Hospital”) under the federal anti-kickback statute or the civil monetary penalty law for two arrangements under which the Hospital provides transportation aid and short-term lodging to pregnant women covered by federal health care programs. [read post]
30 Jan 2011, 9:38 am by Todd Rodriguez
Physicians in Pennsylvania should be aware that a new Pennsylvania law requires physicians and their employees who provide direct patient care to wear a photo identification badge during work hours. [read post]
16 Mar 2015, 9:44 am by Todd Rodriguez
Many physicians mistakenly believe that federal healthcare fraud and abuse statutes only apply to the Medicare fee-for-service program. [read post]
13 Nov 2015, 6:16 am by Todd Rodriguez
This past month, CMS published several new Frequently Asked Questions  (FAQs) on its website addressing questions about the EHR incentive programs, and in particular how to attest to certain measures for health information exchange, patient electronic access, and other objectives that require patient action. [read post]
21 Jun 2010, 5:47 am by Todd Rodriguez
On Friday, June 18, the Senate approved a bill which, if passed by the House next week, would prevent the scheduled 21% cut in Medicare reimbursement under the Medicare Physician Fee Schedule. [read post]
14 Mar 2016, 6:39 am by Todd Rodriguez
By Alexandra Sobol A recent Weill Cornell Medicine study is breathing new life into the expression, “time is money. [read post]
15 Mar 2016, 12:51 pm by Edward J. Cyran
Called by some the “King of Nursing Homes” for his many low-income nursing home patients in northeast Illinois, Dr. [read post]
22 Jun 2016, 5:07 am by Edward J. Cyran
The deadline for providers to file a hardship exception application to the electronic health record (EHR) meaningful use requirements for the 2015 reporting period is July 1, 2016. [read post]
29 May 2013, 7:24 pm by Todd Rodriguez
Earlier this month the closely watched case of U.S. ex rel Drakeford v Tuomey Healthcare System Inc. (675 F.3d 394 (4th Cir. 2012) concluded with a jury finding that the compensation paid to physicians under certain part-time employment agreements by Tuomey Healthcare System resulted in violations of both the federal False Claims Act and the federal Stark law. [read post]